This week’s round‑up ranges from recently read and reviewed books to standout literary writing across the blogosphere, alongside anniversaries of note (among them World Listening Day and the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray). It also returns to earlier posts deserving another look and draws together a set of intriguing book‑related features from around the Internet.
This sporadic post covering all manner of things I’ve recently read, watched and done is where I hold forth on matters both serious and silly. You are invited along for the ride.
After a six-year hiatus, I return with my sporadic post covering all manner of things I’ve recently read, watched and done with my days. However, this time it is less an inflexible, orderly list than a selection of variegated observations. For now, at least.
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, look forward to Moomin Week, which straggles the final week in August and the first in September, and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
Carmen Maria Machado’s absorbing and brilliantly unorthodox account of an abusive relationship is due for publication in the UK on 2nd January 2020.